Reflections of the Night 3 Print

Reflections of the Night is a set of three photographs taken in a Boke style to represent the day after the night before. Can one remember or want to remember the happenings of last night? BOKE is taken from the Japanese word and has varius meaning : "Boke" (暈け/ボケ), which means "blur" or "haze", resulting in boke-aji (ボケ味), the "blur quality".The 惚ける and 呆ける spellings refer to being mentally hazy, befuddled, childish, senile, or playing stupid. "Nebokeru" (寝ぼける)[9] is a verb denoting the actions or condition of someone who is half-asleep, or nodding off. "Tobokeru" means playing dumb, "toboketa Kao" refers to a poker face. The related term bokashi (暈かし) means intentional blurring or gradation; that is a noun form of the transitive verb bokasu (暈す), which means to make something blurry.